Dr. Lodder received his B.S. degree in Natural Science, along with a M.S. in Chemistry, from Xavier University in 1981 and 1983. He received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry in 1988 after working with Professor Gary M. Hieftje at Indiana University. Dr. Lodder holds joint appointments as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Department of Chemistry at Kentucky. He serves on the board of directors of Spherix (Nasdaq: SPEX), as editor in chief of the astroanalytical chemistry and astrobiology journal Contact in Context, and as a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee on Pharmaceutical Science, Process Analytical Technologies subcommittee.

Dr. Lodder is a first-prize winner in the 1990 international IBM Supercomputing Competition, as well as a winner of a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, the American Society of Agricultural Engineers Paper Award, a Buchi NIR Award, the Tomas Hirschfeld Award in Near-IR Spectroscopy (PittCon), a Research and Development 100 Award, and the Orville N. Green Service Award (SETICon).

U.S. News and World Report, The Valley of Death: Researchers Probe a Mysterious Plague of Heart Disease, December 21, 1998.

Ch. 27 and Ch. 18 news, Nov. 8, 1998. Coverage of the paper Characterization of the Composition and Vulnerability of Atherosclerotic Plaques by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, at the American Heart Association National Meeting in Dallas. Also in the Lexington Herald-Leader, Nov. 9, 1998.

Ch. 27 and Ch. 18 news, Nov. 8, 1998. Coverage of the paper Characterization of the Composition and Vulnerability of Atherosclerotic Plaques by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy@, at the American Heart Association National Meeting in Dallas. Also in the Lexington Herald-Leader, Nov. 9, 1998.

Ensor, M.;Williams, J.;Smith, R.;Banfield, A.;Lodder, R.A."Effects of Three Low-Doses of D-Tagatose on Glycemic Control Over Six Months in Subjects with Mild Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Under Control with Diet and Exercise."Journal of endocrinology, diabetes & obesity2,4(2014):1057.[PubMed Link] |

Dempsey, R.J.;Cassis, L.A.;Davis, D.G.;Lodder, R.A."Near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy in stroke research: lipoprotein distribution and disease."Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences820,(1997):149-69.[PubMed Link] | [ Full text ]